Tool and Die Authority Complete List of Articles
Complete List of Articles
Joe Brown
Oakland University
Creates an Open Forum…for Die Makers, their Customers and Other
Key Stakeholders, September 2009
The Future Tooling-Talent Pool: Misperceptions Demand Attention, August 2009
“L’unione fa la forza”—In Union There is Strength (Italian Proverb), July 2009
Understand the Significance of the Tooling Industry, or Else, June 2009
An Exclusive Interview with the Mastermind Behind the Tooling Proposal, May 2009
Here’s How We Got Here. Spread the Message! Part 1, April 2009
Lien on Me, March 2009
U.S.-Korea Trade Imbalance, Part 2, February 2009
U.S.-Korea Trade Relationship Points to Reasons for Auto, Tooling Troubles, January 2009
Strange Times Call for Strange Bedfellows, December 2008
Time for Tooling Industry to Step Up and Train, November 2008
We Need Apprenticeship Programs, or Soon the Die May be Cast, October 2008
Pete Ulintz
A Split Decision—Part 2, September 2009
A Split Decision, August 2009
Solving Deep-Drawing Problems—Part 2, July 2009
Solving Deep-Drawing Problems, Part 1, June 2009
Surface Coatings for Draw Steels—More Reasons Why You May Not Need Them, May 2009
Surface Coatings for Draw Steels—You May Not Need Them, April 2009
New Business Producing Existing Parts, March 2009
Avoiding Punch-Head Breakage, February 2009
Failure Analysis: Punch-Head Breakage, January 2009
Failure Analysis for Stamping Dies, Part 2: Tool-Steel Heattreatment, December 2008
Failure Analysis for Stamping Dies—General Procedures, November 2008
Quick Fixes for Slug Pulling, October 2008
Danny Schaeffler
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (or, Are You Really an Author if No One Reads What You Write?), September 2009
Limitations of Hardness Testing for Deep-Drawing Applications, August 2009
Stronger and Thinner for Summertime…(Building a Better Body One Part at a Time), July 2009
Sampling Sheet Surfaces for Successful Stampings (or, Seeing the Forest and the Trees), June 2009
Troubleshooting Sheetmetal Problems—Part 2 (or, If You Always Do
What You Always Did, You’ll Always Get What You Always Got),
May
2009
Troubleshooting Sheetmetal Problems (or, Meticulously Mending Metal with Mettle), April 2009
What is Steel? Part 3: Steel Microstructures and Phases (or,
While the Iron is Hot, Grab It!…with Apologies to Mrs.
Malaprop),
March 2009
What is Steel? Part 2: Medium-Strength and Conventional High-Strength Steels (or, Ironing Out the Differences), February 2009
What is Steel?…Part 1 (or, Too Many Irons in the Fire), January 2009
The Case for Thinning Strain Analysis (Strain Spots Keep Falling in the Red), December 2008
Circle Grid Strain Analysis—Confirm that Ellipse Measurements
Make Sense (or, It’s My Destiny to be The King of Strain),
November 2008
Measuring Accurately During Circle Grid Strain Analysis (or, I Can See Clearly Now, The Strain Is Gone), October 2008
Bob Quinn
How Does Tooling Price Impact Piece Price?, September 2009
Tooling Costs Compared—Offshore vs. On, August 2009
America Can Compete, With a Little Innovation, May 2009
Job Tracking and Quoting Systems—A Deeper Look, April 2009
Closing the Loop—To Measure or Not to Measure?, March 2009
How About a Little ‘Coopetition’ to Ride out the Storm, February 2009
Time-Saving Alternatives for the Toolroom—Part 3, January 2009
Time-Saving Alternatives for the Toolroom—Part 2, December 2008
Time-Saving Alternative to Six-Sided Grinding—Part 1, November 2008
The Basics of Efficient Die Making, October 2008
Drew Stevens
Creative Error Proofing, September 2009
Value-Added Operations, Part 1—Putting Stuff Together, August 2009
Value-Added Operations—Part 3: Locating Parts for In-Die Welding, July 2009
Value-Added Operations, Part 2, June 2009
Value-Added In-Die Operations, Part 1, May 2009
Part Measurement on the Fly, Part 3, April 2009
Part Measurement On the Fly, Part 2, March 2009
Part Measurement ‘On the Fly’—Part 1, February 2009
The Perils of Reverse Tonnage and Improper Counterbalance Settings, January 2009
Error-Proofing Proactively with Proper Setups, December 2008